Gas-producing apparatus



April 12,1938, KAMANN 2,114,144

jrzz/e/zfo/t- Patented Apr. 12, 1938 2,114,144

UNITED STATES PATENT FFlE GAS-PRODUCING APPARATUS Franz Kamann, Essen, Germany, assignor to Robert Muller, Essen, Germany Application February 20, 1936, Serial No. 64.874 In Germany August 1, 1934 2 Claims. (01. 23--282) Gas-producing apparatus of the Kipp conacid container and the gas-producing vessel. struction has the disadvantage that, when the Said tube, however, is provided with openings just gas producing operation is stopped the decomabove the neck so that the above mentioned posed products mix with fresh acid or the like drawback still exists.

and soon render it useless. The present invention I claim: 5 overcomes this drawback by an arrangement 1. In a gas producing apparatus of the class which prevents the mixing of the decomposed described, an acid container, 21. gas producing products with fresh acid. vessel arranged above same, a connecting neck The drawings show a diagrammatic side view between them, a raising-tube detachably insertof a construction in accordance with the ined, at its lower end, into the neck, said tube 10 vention. opening at the lower end into the container and The acid container l and the gas-producing separating the lower part of the vessel from the vessel 2 are made of one piece of glass, the latter container, an upp acid Container having a ube having an outlet tap 3 and a filling aperture or reaching close to the bottom of the lower conplug l2. The gas container 4 is disposed airtight tainer and passing through said raising-tube, and 16 in the container 2, and provided with outlet tap a gas ntainer p ni i t gas producing 5 for the gas produced. The acid supply con- Vessel and being provided with an outlet tap, said tainer 6 is inserted airtight into the vessel 4 and raising-tu h vin p nin situated near the its tube 1 reaches close to the bottom of the upp p Of the Vessel adapted to lead the c d container 1. Round the tube 1 and fitted airn a System Of ra ating lines from above into 20 tight between the neck of the vessels l and 2 is the vessel. a raising tube 8 which is provided with several 2. In a gas producing apparatus of the class openings l0 near the upper end of the vessel 2 described, an acid container, a gas producing or in the container 4. It, however, is not absovessel arranged above same, a connecting neck 5 lutely necessary, to provide said openings In. In between them, a raising-tube detachably insert- 5 this case the acid rises over the upper edge ll ed, at its lower end, into the neck, said tube openof the tube 8. The arrangement of the vessel ing at the lower end into the container and sepa- 4 enables the tube 8 to reach above the upper rating the lower part of the vessel from the edge or neck of the container 2 and can therecontainer, an upper acid container having a tube fore be easily inserted in the neck 9 between the reaching close to the bottom of the lower con- 30 containers I and 2. 1 tainer and passing through said raising-tube, and The substance to be decomposed is provided a gas container opening into the gas producing in the vessel 2 and acid or the like is filled into vessel and inserted into the upper opening of the containers I and 6. When the tap 5 is open same, said tube of the upper acid container being the acid rises in the tube 8 and flows through the fitted gas-tight in the upper part of the gas con- 35 openings it] onto the material. When the tap 5 tainer, the latter being provided with an outlet is closed the excess pressure formed in the vestap, said raising-tube having openings situated sels 2 and 4 forces back the acid located in the near the upper part of the vessel adapted to lead tube 8. The acid used remains in the container the acid in a system of radiating lines from above 2 and therefore cannot mix with fresh acid. into the vessel.

It, however, has already been proposed to in- FRANZ KAMANN. sert a tube airtight into the neck between the 

